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and to despatch every available 

 man, water tank cars, and the crude 

 fire fighting appliances which are in 

 such general use for fighting forest 

 and prairie fires. There is no 

 audience to witness the moving out 

 of the fire fighters and their ap- 

 paratus, but the issues at stake, 

 sometimes involving human life, 

 are almost as great as in the city 

 where every modern appliance 

 which can be devised is put into 

 service. 



Telegraph Report (No. 1959) is 

 sent in every case to the District 

 Roadmaster, the official with a 

 first hand knowledge of the terri- 

 tory and of any available help ; 

 simultaneously, his Superintendent, 

 General Superintendent, General 

 .Claim Agent, Assistant General 

 Manager and the General Manager 

 are advised, making the chain com- 

 plete. Needless to sav. where the 

 Roadmaster can handle the situa- 

 tion he does so, and only in cases 

 of extreme urgency is it necessary 

 that he call for help from the 

 higher officials. He is well ac- 

 quainted with the Government for- 

 est and prairie fire fighting agencies 

 and by previous co-operative ar- 

 rangements these bodies work 

 hand-in-hand to combat the fire 

 menace. 



A Forced Landing. 



It took place on the fourth trip back to 

 Remi Lake, Ont. The plane was carry- 

 ing Capt. Maxwell, George Doan. me- 

 chanic; H. M. Blake and myself, passen- 

 gers. When about an hour from Moose, 

 too-thin oil flooded the engine making it 

 impossible to "carry on." Capt. Maxwell 

 fought the engine and coaxed it but 

 found it conquering- him. He circled a 

 stretch of the Mattagami half a dozen 

 times, with the altimeter dropping, mark- 

 ing every shoal and stone, before coming 

 down. He made a beautiful landing in 

 a spot where there was about five feet of 

 water, between high, twisting, rock- 

 bound banks. After a bitterly cold night 

 on the shore of the Mattagami, with 

 little to eat, we "took ofif" the next after- 



He that planteth a tree is a servant of 

 God, 



He provideth a kindness for many gene- 

 rations, 



And faces that he hath not seen shall 

 bless him. — Henry Van Dyke. 



noon — an operation calling for the most 

 delicate handling as there was not only 

 the imminent possibility of smashing in 

 the bow on a hidden rock but there was 

 the necessity even after leaving the water 

 of guiding the big plane between the 

 twisting river banks until it had attained 

 sufficient height to clear them and the 

 bush. Rut it was done. And when we 

 attained flying height visibility was wip- 

 ed out bv the smoke from forest fires and 



